Thursday, September 13, 2012

Leonard Bernstein: On Modern Music

Leonard Bernstein appears on the Omnibus television series (January 13, 1957). This excerpt is taken from "Introduction to Modern Music." The show, created by Robert Saudek and hosted by Alastair Cooke as a live show from New York City, aired on various networks between 1952 and 1961. The premise of the show was to be both educational and entertaining, discussing science, the arts and the humanities.

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There may have been some initial rejections of the music of Beethoven, Brahms and Chopin. However, it took a very short time for their works to be appreciated and loved. A century has passed since the introduction of atonal music. Few people have learned to love it.Bernstein's music, however, is often tonal and melodic. His CANDIDE, as I always say, is the best opera composed in the second half of the 20th century.

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Yiddish Sites (listed since August 2017)

The Internet has dozens of sites dedicated to Yiddish language, culture and music. Here are some that I have found noteworthy. I will add to the list regularly. If you have a Yiddish site or know of one, please contact me:

Yiddish Book Center, dedicated to rescuing, translating, and disseminating Yiddish books and presenting innovative educational programs that broaden understanding of modern Jewish identity;

Yiddishkayt, a site based in Los Angeles that believes that yiddishkayt—the culture, language, art, and worldviews of Eastern European Jews, as they lived in Europe and in the places they settled—has a crucial role to play in our world today;

Yiddish Playscripts, a resource of the U.S. Library of Congress that contains 77 unpublished manuscripts of Yiddish theatre;

Yiddish Poetry, Yiddish poetry with translations in several languages; based in Melbourne, Australia;